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J. HILL. TWINE HOLDER. N0.'383,'5'73. Patented May 29, 1888.

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' end I attach to the ceiling or rafters overhead JONATHAN HILL, on NEWYORK, N. Y.

TWINE-HOLDER.

QPECIPICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 383,573, dated May 29,11888. Application filed January 5, 1888. Serial No. 259,863. (No model.

To all whom it may concern-r Be it known that I, JONATHAN HILL, of thecity, county, and State of New York, have invented a new and ImprovedTwine-Holder, of which the following is a full, clear, and exactdescription.

My invention relates to an improvement in twine-holders, and has for itsobject to provide a means whereby the cord when snapped will beautomatically lifted from the table or counter, and wherein either fine,medium, or coarse cord may be employed with equally good results- Theinvention consists in the construction and combination of the severalparts, as will be hereinafter fullyset forth, and pointed out in theclaims.

Reference is to be had to the accompanying drawings, forming a part ofthis specification, in which similar letters of reference indicatecorresponding parts in both the figures.

Figure 1 is a side elevation of the device, and Fig. 2 a section on line:0 w of Fig. 1.

In twine-holders heretofore employed but one size of cord can be used,adifferent holder being required for each size of cord, which renderstheir use more or less expensive and decidedly inconvenient.

To overcome these objections is the prime object of the presentinvention, and to that a length of chain, A, and provide a liftingarm,B, for attachment to said chain.

The lifting arm consists of a rod, preferably of wire, having its outerend bent at right angles, and provided with an eye, b, which may beformed by bending the wire at the In one of the aforesaid apertures bthe lower end of chain A is fastened.

A short length of chain, D, is secured to the eye I) of the lifting-armand also to a perpendicular rod, D, provided at its lower extremity witha hook, snap, or equivalent fastening device adapted for connection withthe loop of any approved style of twine-cup. To the aforesaid shortlength of chain D another longer length, E, is fastened, purposed to act.as a guide for the cord, as will be hereinafter set forth.

Inthe event small cord is to be used, the chain A is fastened in theaperture nearest the eye I), as shown in Fig. l, whereby the shortestamount of leverage is obtained by the cup and rod upon thelifting-arm.WVhen medium-sized cord is employed, the chain A is shifted to the nextaperture, and when the ball or cord in the cup is of the largest sizethe chain A is carried to the outer aperture. It is thus evident that bymeans of the grading attachment to the lifting-arm any sized cord may beplaced in the cup, and that the lengthening of the leverage of said armis conveniently and expeditiously effected.

In operation the twine H is passed up from the cup through the last linkof the guidechain E, up through the eye I) of the liftingarm, and downthrough the usual apertures in the cup, or an eye attached thereto, tothe counter. WVhen the cord is drawn from the cup, the lifting-arm isalso drawn downward, and when the cord belowis broken the weight of thecup upon the short arm of the lever causes it to ascend, taking the cordup with it and from off the counter.

Having thus described my invention, what I of a twine-cup suspended fromthe short arm 5 of said lever and a guide-chain pendent from thecup-connection adjacent to the lever, substantially as and for thepurpose herein set forth.

3.- In a twine-holder, the combination, with asupporting-ohain andaleverfulcrumed upon I whereby the cord may be passed from the cup said chain,provided with a graduated sleeve, I through alink of the guide-chain,through the [0 and having an eye at the extremity of the eye of thelever, and downward, as set forth. longer arm, of a twine-cup supportedfrom the short arm of the lever by a rod and short length. JONATHAN L ofchain and a guide-chain pendent from the Witnesses:

aforesaid short length of chain adjacent to the H. STEINERT,

lever, substantially as shown and described, MARY SAMETZ.

